One of Prince's girlfriends during his wild days also died at 57, just two months ago.

Vanity died in February due to kidney failure following years of crack cocaine abuse. Prince, who was found at his Paisley Park mansion in Minneapolis on Thursday, left the world devastated after his sudden death aged 57.

Vanity, who met the singer in the 1980s, had a long battle with drugs and wrote in her memoirs of a deep insecurity during her younger years.

Vanity, born Denise Matthews, was lead singer of the group Vanity 6 (Image: WireImage)

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The born again Christian described in her memoirs, 'Blame it on Vanity', needing 23 surgeries and dialysis three times a week. At one point she was given just three days to live.

Writing on the Gofundme page she set up to pay for her medical bills, Vanity recently said: '23 years alive after the doctors pronounced i would be dead way back then 1992'.

Her book talks about shockingly high high blood pressure of 250 over 190, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, blood clots to the brain and blindness complete as well as deafness left me with only three days to live'.

But her last Facebook update was bleak: 'My Nephrologist told me Friday afternoon that i did not have Pancreatitis and that is good news however the bad news is they say i have Sclerosis Encapsulating Peritonitis.